FILM fans might currently not be able to enjoy big screen blockbusters during lockdown but they’re certain about which movie legend would help make social isolation a bit more bearable.
Cinemagoers from East Anglia would choose Johnny Depp as their favourite lockdown partner, according to a study by Showcase Cinemas.
In a nationwide poll, Showcase fans in East Anglia chose Johnny – star of The Pirates of the Caribbean – as the big screen celebrity who they’d most like to be locked down with.
Depp pipped Chris Hemsworth – famous for playing Thor in The Avengers movie franchise – to the title in a closely fought contest between two of the big screen’s biggest stars.
Men In Black and Independence Day star Will Smith came third in the poll, closely followed by Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence (who both polled 11%).
Twice as many film fans would rather spend lockdown with a funny actor or actress (32%) than a physically attractive actor or actress (15%), the study reveals. While men mostly voted to spend their lockdown with a physically attractive movie star (22.5%), women overwhelmingly opted to spend it with a funny actor (42%).
UK film fans can’t wait to start going to the cinema again, with a quarter of the 2,000 UK adults polled saying they will visit the cinema to get their movie fix within 7 days of cinemas opening after the lockdown. A further 27% say they will be back munching popcorn and watching their favourite movie on the big screen within a month.
Indeed, more than a third (36%) of the nation lists visiting the cinema as one of its most missed activities during lockdown.
